On this final page, the tolling bell & fall into silence seem to elide with the Christmas 1945 fly leaf inscription, evoking the distant orison of church bells pealing into the reverent hush of Christmas morning, a time in any given year when human absences are especially loud, let alone in that one

Every page is a spellbinding mixture of the bleak & ridiculous, Tales of the Riverbank by way of Duchamp’s Étant donnés, a high gothic, avian Teddy Edward in a miniature St Mary Mead

Today’s find: a junior grimoire in which a series of model village Midsummer Murders, Potter’s museum-esque taxidermy tableaux illustrate Who Killed Cock Robin. The faded inscription & faint fingerprints a touching sort of haunting: soft, pale traces of a gift given just after war, a book well loved

Beloved battleaxe rolling around in sunlight and her own soft sweetness, making my heart too tender by looking like a little kitten despite being an angry, irascible old dame

Drawing created by J Rowlinson, c.1971, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, Surrey, where they were compelled to live. No biographical information is currently known to us and this image is taken from art therapist Edward Adamson’s lecture slides, the original is missing presumed lost

On my own, I eat like Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone or an old man whose wife has just died

a big piece from me on my one true love, fanzines, for @theguardian.com. tried to include as many beloved titles as possible— thank you so much to everyone who contributed their voices to this!

Drawing created by J Rowlinson, c.1971, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, Surrey, where they were compelled to live. No biographical information is currently known to us and this image is taken from art therapist Edward Adamson’s lecture slides, the original is missing presumed lost

Jesus. 35 UK universities quietly- without debate - joined the Ministry of Defence’s “Battlefield Alliance” which seeks to “reorientate academia towards Defence and National Security” They’re destroying the social sciences and humanities while militarising the institutions

Don’t forget to do a fun scream

The Peter Firmin auction catalogue is up www.thecanterburyauctiongalleries.com/auction-cale...

This is within walking distance from us. Paging @regretteruane.bsky.social inter alios

My bedroom painted by Muriel Lewis c.1967 in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, where she was compelled to live. Many of her works depict scenes from her materially affluent home life, often devoid of people, with eeriness & emptiness troubling under the surface of comfortable surroundings

Pre-orders now open for my novel PARCH MARKS 💚💛 In a future Britain, archeologist Eva Sinclair investigates the mysterious fern-like patterns left by drought around the long-dry riverbed of an ancient massacre site. Release due September 1st www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

Perverted By Language Collage made from Ladybird books, Wills cigarette cards, Babycham coaster, 1960s Vogue & Woman magazines & 1960s wallpaper, acrylic marker, watercolour, felt tip

The most magical and anticipated book of the year has arrived and is making itself at home

Painting created in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, by an individual who was compelled to live there, identified only as Peeler, c.1950. This is the only surviving work by them in The Adamson Collection and no biographical information is currently known to us

Please join us at Watershed, two weekends of river rights related talks, exhibitions, workshops, discussions, poetry, children's storytelling and more. We have a wealth of local & international contributors #WhoOwnstheClyde #TheEmpireCafe www.eventbrite.com/cc/watershed...

Flies, created by Martin Birch c.midC20th in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where he was compelled to live. The large number of his surviving cartoonish works are filled with biting wit, literary & philosophical references & critique of the psychiatric system which held power over him

Flies, created by Martin Birch c.midC20th in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where he was compelled to live. The large number of his surviving cartoonish works are filled with biting wit, literary & philosophical references & critique of the psychiatric system which held power over him

If cats were granted the power of human speech, the only word they would learn to use is NO

Drawing created c.1968 by Hugh Campbell in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey where he was compelled to live. No biographical information about him is currently known to us. This work depicts the recreation hall which hosted regular dances, concerts, theatre shows & film screenings

As promised to link to my first actual Hookland book. It is only small, but covers a lot of the ghost soil. If enough of you buy it and like it there will be a Volume Two. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123 It will also be available in an actual bookshop soon.

If you would like to spend £1.29 to feel cool and dank and generally subterranean, slowed, soothed and coated in lovely chilly mud, I really recommend watching Big Ware vimeo.com/ondemand/big...

Bought this in the bookshop at Bayham Abbey. It’s incredibly familiar, maybe we had one when I was a kid? Anyhoo, @regretteruane.bsky.social and @mattlyon.bsky.social you’ll like this, as ever.

Drawing created c.1968 by Hugh Campbell in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey where he was compelled to live. No biographical information about him is currently known to us. This work depicts the recreation hall which hosted regular dances, concerts, theatre shows & film screenings

I dunno loves, it’s almost like having to constantly steep in the unchecked, poisonous filth and bare-faced lies of the world’s worst, utter, awful, terrible, horrible, hateful cunts all the time isn’t very good for us or something

Sign ups are now live for this years charity auction: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Human creativity is the most important thing of this auction! Sign ups will run till 31st July Donation deadline End of November 2026 Thank you!

Drawing created c.1968 by Hugh Campbell in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, where he was compelled to live. The majority of his surviving works are observational drawings based on his immediate surroundings. No biographical information is currently known to us

There was only ever this; them, the soft jostle of puppets, their kazoo clamour & mucky fleece faces. Their inscrutable bead eyes & needy paws. We always lived in a landscape of pink shag & beanbags. Poster paints, plasticine & gummed paper shapes, split pins & Gloy. So many crafts, so little time

@regretteruane.bsky.social I've just finished reading Birding. It's extraordinary, thank you. So beautifully written: lyrical, luminous description; funny, true dialogue; achingly accurate emotional understanding. It has helped to heal me. #birding #author #WomensPrize

There was only ever this; them, the soft jostle of puppets, their kazoo clamour & mucky fleece faces. Their inscrutable bead eyes & needy paws. We always lived in a landscape of pink shag & beanbags. Poster paints, plasticine & gummed paper shapes, split pins & Gloy. So many crafts, so little time

Seeking a home delivery service to bring me the precise bittersweet sensation of sitting in a warm elsewhere square with a small glass of something silly, delicious & violently intoxicating, watching the setting sun tie-dye the sky yolk & lilac & ballet shoe on the last night of a holiday

🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

ACE OF WANDS (1970): a beautiful title sequence for this children's classic about Tarot, a crime-fighting stage magician (eat your heart out, Paul Daniels). The theme song was by Status Quo member Andy Bown, and it reached no. 15 in the UK vinyl singles chart - in 2024! Better late than never.

Lost my skeleton in an ossuary, can’t believe it’s happened again

Babe, come over, the orchids are definitely up to something: making strange, soft, susurrating night conversation, frilly moon-lipped mandibles seeping abstruse plots, tapping out a suspect Morse with those elaborate roots of theirs

That’s Maggie Smith isn’t it?

Painting created c.1950s in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, Surrey, by an individual who was compelled to live there, whose identity is currently unknown to us. This image is taken from art therapist Edward Adamson’s lecture slides, the original is currently missing, presumed lost

Fly the angel sleeves of your hostess dress at half mast, dim the standard lamps of all suburbia and please be seated at the telephone table to make the gossipiest call you can from a landline in memoriam💙

Close/closer/almost close enough to…

My flat is full of hundreds of old objects from the Victorian era on, mostly midcentury kitsch, but I use some things daily. I always wanted to live in Bagpuss’s shop & there’s something so consoling about the way it’s simultaneously all just so much stuff yet imbued with unknown stranger’s stories

Drawing created by Fay Coppard, c.1960s in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live. This is one of a handful of surviving paint and charcoal works by her and no biographical information is currently known to us

Hello! I’m looking to interview a trans woman on her experiences of suburbia for my next piece of writing. If you think you could help please get in touch, thank you x

Sweaty & regretty as a Tennessee Williams play

As is traditional for a Friday, I’m attempting to sell my drawings to the general public. Timeless Beefcake, Lear in the Storm, Cone Jimmy and the rabbits and feet have just been added here, the sort of ‘pure drawings’ section, there is nice stuff here. thanks x www.chloecumming.com/almost-drawi...

Utterly fucking it down one minute then immediate baking, blazing, steaming, stewing sunshine again the next, get rekt, absolute fucking Incy Wincy Spider arse weather

Charming chaser in the form of this 1993 documentary about fans of The Prisoner having a lovely time at their convention in Portmerion. Gentle & delightful as all unholy get out, absolute aloe on sunburn of a little, kind character portrait of people who really love a thing youtu.be/b-X9WhyWye4?...

Divine documentary: dust dry narration about the economics of children’s toys, TV & books, electrifyingly enlivened by gloomy Sunshine Desserts style Spirograph execs, Alan Garner getting arsey with kids outside a library & an enthusiastically anticapitalist Oliver Postgate youtu.be/xyK6wsYMfYQ?...